8-27-24 Part 2 Biden pressured Facebook to censor
Red Eye Radio
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now it's Red Eye Radio, Gary McNamara and Eric Harley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day. |
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| 0:31.0 | I'm Gary McNamara. |
| 0:32.0 | He's our currently good morning. Welcome |
| 0:35.0 | Well Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook met us and a letter to Jim Jordan yesterday. They're investigating the weaponization of |
| 0:48.3 | government. They're investigating the censoring that happened in the the 2020 election and after when it came to |
| 0:58.1 | what to COVID and so he wrote this letter I'll read parts of it in 2021 senior officials from the |
| 1:04.8 | Biden administration including the White House repeatedly pressured our |
| 1:09.1 | teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including, you ready for this, including humor and satire, |
| 1:21.8 | and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree. |
| 1:25.0 | Ultimately was our decision whether or not to take the content down and we own our decisions |
| 1:30.4 | including COVID-19 related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this |
| 1:36.4 | pressure. |
| 1:39.1 | I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think |
| 1:45.8 | that we made some choices that with the benefit of hindsight and new information |
| 1:49.7 | we would not make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our |
| 1:56.4 | content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction and we're |
| 2:01.9 | ready to push back if something like that happens |
| 2:04.4 | again. In a separate situation the FBI warned us about a potential Russian |
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